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What was the First Bible Like?
The Emergence of Christian Texts, Scripture, and Canon
Tomas Bokedal
This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839989308
March 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond.
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The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain
Origins, Survival and Recovery
Roger Collins
The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279218
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.
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The Nostalgia for Origins
Religion, Evolution, Cognitive and Memory
Carl Olson
This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990519
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines a possible source for the origin of religion, using the theory of evolution and findings from cognitive science. It adds a theory of power to suggest the agency of early Homo sapiens.
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A Historical and Theoretical Guide to Studying Religion
Wesley Kort
The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic study of religion.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990540
January 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00The book is a historical and theoretical account of the development and present situation of what has come widely to be known as Religious Studies. This account emphasizes the complexity of the field due both to its origins and the uncertain and even conflicted position today of the academic study of religion.
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Wollstonecraft and Religion
Brenda Ayres
This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990182
January 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.
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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1834
Sam Hirst
Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981531
July 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 1764–1832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.
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Explorations in Twentieth-century Theology and Philosophy
People Preoccupied with God
Ann Loades
Edited by Stephen BurnsExplorations in Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy is a collection of studies of the thought of Evelyn Underhill, Dorothy L. Sayers, C. S. Lewis, Austin Farrer, Simone Weil, and others by a leading contemporary theologian.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278587
April 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Explorations in Twentieth-Century Theology and Philosophy is a collection of studies of the thought of Evelyn Underhill, Dorothy L. Sayers, C. S. Lewis, Austin Farrer, Simone Weil, and others by a leading contemporary theologian.
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Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science
Huaiyu Chen
This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985010
March 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This transdisciplinary study focuses on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science. It examines how medieval religious agents engaged with animals and plants as material culture in the mundane world, and how the spiritual world and natural world mutually enriched each other in the medieval world of China.
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The World of Wu Zhao
Annotated Selections from Zhang Zhuo’s Court and Country
N. Harry Rothschild
The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983528
February 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China.
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Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World
Wayfaring through Despair
Ashley Moyse
For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with and for others, together, through such despair, now liberated to become hopeful wayfarers in living and dying.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278617
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00For those captive to the broken world of late modernity, wherein ageing and dying persons become vulnerable to despair, this book not only offers a diagnostic of such despair but also resources the practices of a realistic, humanising hope that might enable a strength for person to journey with and for others, together, through such despair, now liberated to become hopeful wayfarers in living and dying.
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Lest We Lose Love
Rediscovering the Core of Western Culture
Scherto Gill
Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amongst all, and extend our caring to self, other people, and other beings on the planet.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987601
July 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00Lest We Lose Love is a most timely book that helps the reader to resume confidence in humanity’s future in the light of the present complex global crises. It enables people to find hope in our collective capacity to value what truly matters to our common life, sustain congenial relationships amongst all, and extend our caring to self, other people, and other beings on the planet.
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Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond
Edited by Nausica Palazzo, Jeffrey A. Redding
Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law’s recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. This book also looks to future arenas of queer and religious political cooperation beyond family law.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983078
July 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Family law is a site of social conflict and the erasure of non-traditional families. This book explores how conservative religious and progressive queer groups can cooperatively work together to expand family law’s recognition beyond the traditional state-sponsored family. This book also looks to future arenas of queer and religious political cooperation beyond family law.
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Chindian Myth of Mulian Rescuing His Mother – On Indic Origins of the Yulanpen Sūtra
Debate and Discussion
Xiaohuan Zhao
The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
Anthem Press
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9781839986963
May 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95The scriptural source for the Ghost Festival in East Asia is the Yulanpen Sūtra, which, however, is overwhelmingly considered apocryphal in modern scholarship. This book challenges this widely held belief by demonstrating that the sūtra is a Chinese creative translation rather than an indigenous Chinese composition.
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Reclaiming the Wicked Son
Finding Judaism in Secular Jewish Philosophers
Stephen Stern, Steven Gimbel
This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986147
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book takes the ideas of six well-known secular Jewish philosophers and views them through the lens of Jewish thought, thereby understanding their writings as part of the Jewish intellectual tradition.
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After Jews
Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man
Piotr Nowak
The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”.
Anthem Press
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9781839981944
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world “after Jews”.
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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility
Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650
Scott McDermott
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.
Anthem Press
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9781785274725
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysical basis in keeping with Christian corporatist theory.
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Religion, Neuroscience and New Physics in Dialogue
Stone Age Souls in Modern Minds
Darren Marks
Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-expert conversational work.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980091
August 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Can we live with being merely a brain with a history of being souls? Can our supra-nature, learnt in the crucible of religion and expressed in theology, survive without being exiled to the quantum mysteries of consciousness? Our very survival depends on these questions being answered in this non-expert conversational work.
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Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience
An Anthropological Critique
Homayun Sidky
“Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience” provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271625
November 2019
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£200.00 / $200.00“Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience” provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality by the advocates of supernatural, paranormal, and pseudoscientific perspectives and modes of thought.
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Textuality, Culture and Scripture
A Study in Interrelations
Wesley A. Kort
“Textuality, Culture and Scripture,” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, argues for the necessary role of textuality in culture and the inadequacy of a cultural theory based on materialism. It explores the standing and role of scripture in textual theory and in cultural, group and personal identities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271595
November 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00“Textuality, Culture and Scripture,” a study of the necessary and close relations between the three concepts, argues for the necessary role of textuality in culture and the inadequacy of a cultural theory based on materialism. It explores the standing and role of scripture in textual theory and in cultural, group and personal identities.
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The Ocean of God
On the Transreligious Future of Religions
Roland Faber
‘The Ocean of God’ proposes that the future of religions will become transreligious. Its polyphilic pluralism, entertaining religious pluralism and the unity of religions mediated by process and Baha’i thought, assumes the spiritual impulse of humanity, despite secularizations, naturalizations and transhumanist dreams, to further a civilized future of peace.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089857
June 2019
Active
£125.00 / $125.00‘The Ocean of God’ proposes that the future of religions will become transreligious. Its polyphilic pluralism, entertaining religious pluralism and the unity of religions mediated by process and Baha’i thought, assumes the spiritual impulse of humanity, despite secularizations, naturalizations and transhumanist dreams, to further a civilized future of peace.